RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 26, 2018 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2018 at 7:15 pm by bennyboy.)
I don't think racism is a good thing at all. There are, for sure, black people out there whose natural capacity is undeveloped due to limitations with the American system, and this is a serious problem for the ability of the US to compete in a world market with China and Russia-- and God forbid that one of THOSE countries replace the US as the dominant superpower in the world. With a better infrastructure, some black kid might grow up to cure cancer instead of ending up in prison. Or some dad who gets released from an unduly harsh prison sentence, with financial incentives for non-offending, might provide inspiration for his children and community, contributing to a psychological culture which will produce that next black Einstein in a generation or two.
The PC-minded see me as racist because I look at statistics and attempt to incorporate them into real solutions. I don't shy away from negative statistics, like low IQ scores, crime rates, and so on. But that's not because I want to justify keeping black people down. It's because I believe you need to correctly identify the problem in order to effectively address it.
It's known that IQ, race, and income are correlated. Saying it's all racism is one thing, but my response is-- Okay, instead of blaming the test, what would we need to do to actually get those IQ scores up? And the answer, which I've stated many times, is that affirmative action-- the excusing of IQ, SAT (or ACT) test scores on the basis of bias, is the wrong path to take. The answer is to generate black kids who CAN compete on equal footing, through the economic incentives and support systems that I've outlined here.
The PC questions are all wrong-- How can we get more money into the hands of black workers? How can we get more black kids into university? They are not based on bringing kids through a system that generates REAL value, instead of using cultural diversity as a euphemistic substitute.
The right questions are-- how can we start getting good academic results in black communities? How can we keep families together? How can we reduce incarceration rates in black communities? How can we better support single moms and their kids, so that they can maintain esteem and hold a vision of a future that is real enough to work for?
My issue with PC is that while there's a lot of talk at the end-point (say an application to university), virtue signalling is far more common than real boots-on-the-ground solutions that might actually work.
The PC-minded see me as racist because I look at statistics and attempt to incorporate them into real solutions. I don't shy away from negative statistics, like low IQ scores, crime rates, and so on. But that's not because I want to justify keeping black people down. It's because I believe you need to correctly identify the problem in order to effectively address it.
It's known that IQ, race, and income are correlated. Saying it's all racism is one thing, but my response is-- Okay, instead of blaming the test, what would we need to do to actually get those IQ scores up? And the answer, which I've stated many times, is that affirmative action-- the excusing of IQ, SAT (or ACT) test scores on the basis of bias, is the wrong path to take. The answer is to generate black kids who CAN compete on equal footing, through the economic incentives and support systems that I've outlined here.
The PC questions are all wrong-- How can we get more money into the hands of black workers? How can we get more black kids into university? They are not based on bringing kids through a system that generates REAL value, instead of using cultural diversity as a euphemistic substitute.
The right questions are-- how can we start getting good academic results in black communities? How can we keep families together? How can we reduce incarceration rates in black communities? How can we better support single moms and their kids, so that they can maintain esteem and hold a vision of a future that is real enough to work for?
My issue with PC is that while there's a lot of talk at the end-point (say an application to university), virtue signalling is far more common than real boots-on-the-ground solutions that might actually work.
